James J. Goedert and a team of leading experimental and clinical
researchers provide critical, integrating surveys of those viruses,
bacteria, and parasites that are now known to play a major role in
cancer-work that opens the way toward novel therapeutic targets. The
contributors focus on five types of human carcinogenic
infection-herpesviruses, retroviruses, papillomaviruses, hepatitis
viruses, and H. pylori-and review in depth the associated malignancies,
as well as how these new diagnostic and therapeutic technologies may be
implemented. Cutting-edge and cross-disciplinary, Infectious Causes of
Cancer: Targets for Intervention provides clinical oncologists and
infectious disease specialists, as well as clinical researchers, with
insightful reviews of cancer induction by infectious diseases and the
high promise of closely targeted new therapeutics and vaccines.